tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-199257572024-03-05T22:00:12.117-05:00LifeoftheMindRandom thoughts, usually my comments on larger blogs.LifeoftheMindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08332328377169650229noreply@blogger.comBlogger1645125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19925757.post-81992984923097186242023-12-31T07:52:00.000-05:002023-12-31T07:52:26.942-05:00On Hamas<script
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The crimes of Hamas and its supporters exceed those of the Nazis in their depravity. It proved hard but possible after the Holocaust for the German people to rejoin the community of nations. While the poisons of Totalitarianism and Racism that National Socialism fostered can never be completely eradicated, and indeed preceded that movement, sincere efforts to repudiate them merit acknowledgement. Also in its 12 year rule the NSDAP did not sink roots deep enough to eliminate opposition and the legacy of an alternative culture that could be restored and built upon.
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Among the Arabs who identify as Palestinian the situation is far worse, and indeed it is worse than it was some 55 years ago when the KGB sponsored the creation of a Palestinian identity, separate from Jordanian Egyptian Syrian or Lebanese, as a permanant source of conflict. Not just Israel but no nation, Jewish Christian Secular or indeed even Muslim, can exist at peace with a nation that rejects every concept of tolerance restraint law decency or humanity. If the seeds of an alternative set of values still exist among the Palestinians of Gaza, and in the West Bank where polls indicate that if the Authority under Abbas were to allow an election then Hamas would win, and in the camps controlled by Hezbollah in Lebanon, then only through the comprehensive defeat of Hamas could a path open for the repudiation of the culture of death. Only then could a possible future for the descendants of the Arabs who migrated to lands between the river and the sea in the 19th and 20th centuries based on peace decency and respect be found for them as citizens of whatever country they may come to.LifeoftheMindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08332328377169650229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19925757.post-1021219028861303182023-11-12T15:06:00.001-05:002023-12-10T07:16:05.604-05:00"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." - Martin Luther King Jr.<script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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<i>"Most people have been brought up to be civil to a fault, to avoid making a public spectacle at all costs and in extremis to walk away rather than be openly disagreeable. This is a civic virtue in a high trust society.<br>
But in a tribal society the rules are different."</i>
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Reading about the NYPD "Sheltering" in Grand Central Station with the pro-Hamas mob baying outside and the French government caving to the Islamists and demanding that Israel stop hunting the monsters who hide behind women and children and under a hospital after they murdered babies in the most depraved ways imaginable I wondered what would happen if people did resort to vigilantism and if the Israelis did use their own clandestine forces to destroy the sanctuaries their enemies have formed in societies no longer able to defend themselves?
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Hamas, which is part of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), is engaged in Insurrection and Invasion. It is not a Law Enforcement problem but a military threat that uses women and children as strategic and tactical assets.
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Radical mob insurrections in the Arab world have been marked by savagery and butchery. In 1958 KIng Faisal II of Iraq, the cousin of King Hussein of Jordan the father of the current king of Jordan, was deposed by a secular coup. The king and his family and his Prime Minister were killed, their bodies were mutilated and desecrated and dragged through the streets. In 2011 Islamists chanting "God is Great" sodomized Muammar Gadaffi with a bayonet before shooting him.
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The MB is banned in Egypt and Jordan and in many other countries. The population of Gaza overwhelmingly support Hamas. While it was flawed the election of 2006 did result in a win for Hamas. In 2007 the coalition with the PA broke down and in a civil war Hamas seized control of Gaza. Since then they have ruled through terror and used Gaza as a platform for attacking Israel, and threatening the government of Egypt and the PA on the West Bank. The have refined using the plight of the population that they have caused to extort aide from the Israelis that they attacking. Aide which is then diverted to enable a greater military threat. All opposition has beenkilled or expelled and the population by all reports is both dependant on and supportive of Hamas.
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The governments of Egypt and Jordan are determined to keep the population of Gaza in place and out of their countries. This is not due to an attachment to the Geneva Conventions prohibiting displacing civilians that have been routinely ignored in other cases. The insistance that they remain in Gaza, where they have and will launched not just military attacks but terrorism of unspeakable sadistic horror, is due to their determination not to expose their nations to the same horror. They believe with good reason that if they admit the population of Hamas and its supporters then they, the leaders of Egypt and Jordan and their supporters, will die and that their people will be subject to a bloody tyranny.
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What will happen if the Hamas terror is met by terror and identified perpetrators and supporters of violence against Jews are killed? Would the NYPD vigorously pursue the cases? Would the federal government flood the city to protect the Muslim community, and impose restrictions on Jews? What if the violence escalated and 200,000 Muslims, open Hamas supporters and women and children, declare that NYC is not safe for them and they begin marching en masse across the George Washington Bridge to New Jersey? If those people were to be permitted to enter NJ then all of the cultural social and legal protections would be swept away and a sharia compliant system would replace it.
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Who would stop them and How?LifeoftheMindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08332328377169650229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19925757.post-45450276435003234842023-01-16T15:23:00.003-05:002023-01-16T15:26:51.698-05:00On Racial Identities<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQaFzl8TKkONmnc7CGEgi6JYrqkP-Jp_trAKX28VXSP0ENFCu6FBj7AaPBMZIca_FwQT3MYn6BgoWvTru-q5D4BxjlJNZam1B1Dr95CXlb-SMfGRppv7eaWEZKcdrTSAUQ1moReBJhiuxqCC4_JbWLzRgbT5uWOGEzUDBw-5q8YAFkiRxQCQ/s752/Antisemitism%20Among%20Blacks%20MLK%20Day.jpg" style="background-color: #fce5cd; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="507" data-original-width="752" height="270" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQaFzl8TKkONmnc7CGEgi6JYrqkP-Jp_trAKX28VXSP0ENFCu6FBj7AaPBMZIca_FwQT3MYn6BgoWvTru-q5D4BxjlJNZam1B1Dr95CXlb-SMfGRppv7eaWEZKcdrTSAUQ1moReBJhiuxqCC4_JbWLzRgbT5uWOGEzUDBw-5q8YAFkiRxQCQ/w400-h270/Antisemitism%20Among%20Blacks%20MLK%20Day.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><br /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(42, 46, 46); color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="background-color: #fce5cd; caret-color: rgb(42, 46, 46); color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 15px;"><br /></span></div><span style="background-color: #fce5cd;"><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(42, 46, 46); color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 15px;">I owe decency to individuals. As members of a hostile community I don't owe Blacks a damn thing. As a group they have been badly served by "Leaders" who have been corrupt tools of the racists who exploit them. Given that they are a shrinking and not very influential part of the larger society, with above average expressions of social pathologies, I see no reason to invest in promoting the affiliation of people with that identity group. If individuals in response to normal decent treatment affiliate with and identify with productive communities then that would merit support and encouragement.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 46, 46); color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 46, 46); color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(42, 46, 46); color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 15px;">The question then is what is meant by "Black" as a social group. If it means identifying with Racism Misogyny Antisemitism and violent and criminal behavior then that does not merit support encouragement or tolerance. If it means a group recently arrived in the United States from some backwards and repressive place, which can be applied I think to those grandchildren of slaves who left the former plantations and moved to America in the 20th century, then they deserve neither more nor less support than anyone else. The vast majority of Americans, Jews Germans Italians Greeks Slavs Asians etc are the children of people who migrated to the US from nasty places after the Civil War but before the children and grandchildren of the former slaves left the plantations. Subsequent arrivals by Hispanics, East Asians, East Europeans, South Asians and others add to the overwhelming majority who have their own legacies of oppression that they came to America to escape and who have no connection to any injustice that the ancestors of Blacks faced.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 46, 46); color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 46, 46); color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(42, 46, 46); color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 15px;">The only people that the Blacks may have had claim against were the minority of Whites in the Slavocracy of the South who used slaves to compete with free white labor. The great great great grandchildren of that group are often found among the Democratic Party elite that still exploits Blacks as an identity group. Indeed some of them are themselves Black, notably Barack Obama. Even the Wasps of the North should not be any logical target for claims advanced by advocates of collective guilt.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 46, 46); color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 46, 46); color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(42, 46, 46); color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 15px;">What the Left uses the nurtured sense of grievance and entitlement and alienation in the Black community to advance is a general criticism of Capitalism. The thoroughly irrational argument is that since the Jews Italians Russians Wasps etc all benefited from Capitalism in America and the slaves suffered then everyone owes the descendants of the slaves. That is ridiculous on many levels but first because the above mentioned Slavocracy was not a Capitalist society. Indeed that is why a Civil War at the cost of 600,000 dead, proportionately over 6 Million if fought in today's America, had to be fought and to free the slaves.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 46, 46); color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box; caret-color: rgb(42, 46, 46); color: #2a2e2e; font-family: Roboto, sans-serif; font-size: 15px;" /><span face="Roboto, sans-serif" style="caret-color: rgb(42, 46, 46); color: #2a2e2e; font-size: 15px;">https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/polling/antisemitism-worst-among-black-americans-democrats-despite-mlks-defense</span></span><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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When they brought in the Marxist cypher Yee as Provost and then the </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Berkley</span><span data-offset-key="21ghv-2-0" style="font-family: inherit;"> apparatchik Alivisatos to kill the effort to retain the University as a redoubt against the Orwellian tide sweeping through the academies the game was up. Arguably it has been a losing fight since John Boyer first worked to cut back the Core and expand the College. There were brave rear guard actions in defense of The Life of The Mind and Intellectual Freedom with high standards, this is the university that closed its school of Education when they saw that it could not maintain the expected level of scholarly standards, but all of that will now crumble before indoctrination and censorship by mobs of entrenched bigots. It is a sad thing when a great university declines. The fall of Alma Mater is like the senescence of any parent, a time of grief and reflection. While I am no religious fundamentalist I think that such a loss can be described by analogy to scripture.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="t2gp" data-offset-key="b3qj1-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="b3qj1-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="b3qj1-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="t2gp" data-offset-key="dgmn7-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dgmn7-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="dgmn7-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">"π―ππ πππ πππ ππππππ ππππππ ππ πππ πππ ππ ππ πππ ππππππ! πΆ π±πππππππ, ππππ ππππ πππππ ππ πππππ ππππ ππππππ."</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="t2gp" data-offset-key="a659f-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a659f-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="a659f-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="t2gp" data-offset-key="9h0no-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9h0no-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9h0no-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">"π―ππ πππ ππππ ππππππ ππππ ππππππ, πΆ π³ππππππ, πππ ππ πππ πππππππ! πππ πππ ππππ πππ π πππ ππ πππ ππππππ , πππππ π ππ ππ ππππππ πππ πππππππ!"</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="t2gp" data-offset-key="9at15-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9at15-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9at15-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="t2gp" data-offset-key="7pjmi-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7pjmi-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="7pjmi-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">For those who prefer a more literary depiction of a decline with the hoped for but not expected chance of recovery, with the assurance that I wish the University no ill, may I suggest Frodo's words of judgment and pity for Saruman, "π―π πππ πππππ ππππ, ππ π πππππ ππππ ππππ ππ ππππππ πππ π πππ ππ πππππ πππ ππππ π πππππππ. π―π ππ ππππππ, πππ πππ ππππ ππ ππππππ ππ; πππ π° πππππ πππππ πππππ πππ, ππ πππ ππππ ππππ ππ πππ ππππ ππ."</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="t2gp" data-offset-key="d7688-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d7688-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><br /></div></div><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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Everyone showed up. One day Dad, who was a Squad Leader, was in a foxhole next to a road in Italy when a German fighter plane straffed the road. A jeep stopped and a man clutching a violin case jumped out and jumped into my father's foxhole. It was Jascha Heifitz, the greatest violinist in the world. As I said, everyone got into the act.</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">By April 1945 my father was, in a foxhole, in the Appenines near Bagni di Lucca. The snow was deep. It was bitter cold. Every third day he had to turn his underwear inside out to keep the lice busy. Dad was sick with frostbite feet and maybe typhus. Odds were that he was going to die.</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Dad had already used up more favors than God usually hands out. He was originally supposed to be in the first group of recruits sent to reinforce the Philippines. Dad caught a cold in boot camp and was reassigned, so he missed the Bataan Death March. Instead the Army sent him to spend a couple of weeks in Florida at Fighter Recognition School, where he was the only student not a field grade officer, and then sent him to England. There he had a date with some Countessa or Baroness whose family had a castle and only learned along with his colonel that they were heading for Mers el Kebir for the invasion of North Africa when the English village girls who typed the orders yelled it to them as Dad and the colonel marched to the troop ship. Dad survived that.</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">In North Africa Dad was sent up to observe so he was not caught in the disaster of Kasserine Pass. He took shelter in the graves the ever methodical Germans had Russian prisoners dig in advance. The Germans did not come back after the battle on the other side of the hill. No one ever discovered what happened to the Russians. Dad survived that.</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">In Italy Dad landed at Salerno. He asked the locals "Dove tedeschi?" and they replied "Lasciato tre giorni." Then the Americans waited for the Hermann Goering Division to show up. Dad survived that.</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">The Army, which is run by geniuses, was concerned that someone might steal Mt Vesuvius, so they had my father set up a machine gun nest on top of the volcano. It erupted. They did credit Dad with shooting down a Messerschmitt but Dad said that the pilot was probably already dead before he fired a shot. Dad survived that.</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Dad's CO was a Colonel who had been a Midwest bank VP. I think he was like Mr Milton in "Best Years of Our Lives." A fearless character normally found someplace warm and dry two miles behind the lines he would volunteer his men for anything and threatened to put my father on report for dragging a mattress found in an abandoned farmhouse into his foxhole (naturally) before Monte Cassino. General Alexander stopped that. He shook his swagger stick and said, "That's the spirit man. Forage man, forage." Dad survived that.</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Dad's own troops proved more dangerous. When he learned that they were stealing supplies and running them across the boot to sell to the black market on the Adriatic coast Dad put a stop to it. Someone tried to kill him, taking a shot that parted his hair. Dad survived that.</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">So when Dad was filthy hungry sick and freezing in the mountains near Bologna it was reasonable for him to think that his luck had run out. Then a strapping young Lieutenant from the 10th Mountain Division, looking like a recruiting poster, jumped into Dad's foxhole and said, "I got it. Get out of here." That was Bob Dole and three days later he took the bullet that was meant for my father and strong as he was, it would have killed my father who was a strong man but was weakened by 30 months of almost constant combat, it crippled Dole for life after putting him in the hospital for over a year and a half. Thank you Bob.</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Dad went to the Aid Station where the Army doctor said he had used up his quota and was supposed to send Dad back to the line, where he would have surely died. Then the Doc said, "Hell, what can they do to me?" and sent Dad to the hospital and saved his life. Then the Army told Dad that he was going to be shipped to the Pacific to join the invasion of Japan. They said, "Make out your will. Consider yourself as already dead." Then Harry Truman dropped the bomb. Thanks Harry. Dad survived that.</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">BTW, Dad did not vote for Bob Dole.</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">-----</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Instapundit: R.I.P. Bob Dole Dies at 98.</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;"><br /></span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">Posted by Glenn Reynolds at 12:37 pm</span></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(55, 55, 55); color: #373737; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 14px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/489436/#respond" style="background-color: #fff2cc;">https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/489436/#respond</a></div><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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Itβs long past time to stop.</span></div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto"><span style="font-family: times;">Trumpβs attack on our constitutional procedures does not stand alone. The Democrats have waged their own damaging assault on several fronts. They floated the idea of adding two new states to the Union and more Justices to the Supreme Court. Both are efforts to fundamentally change the legislative and judicial branches by packing them with supporters. </span></div></div></blockquote><blockquote><span style="font-family: times;">Politicians wage attacks like these for tactical advantage. Alas, what is tactical advantage for them inflicts real structure damage on our democracy.</span></blockquote><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: large;">My reply follows.</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span data-outline-text="true">On this one you are simply wrong. The reality may be simply too terrible to accept. The often paranoid theories of the worst and least credible people have finally proven true. Yes they may have cried wolf a thousand times but that makes it possible that the genuine criminals took advantage of that as a cover, recognizing that many had been conditioned not to react to the real theft. The very magnitude of the crime drives those complicit to go to extraordinary lengths to defend it. As Hillary said, "If we don't win we all hang." That then leads the innocent such as yourself, who are invested in maintaining the forms of civil society and constitutional government even as the substance has been eaten out, to bandwagon and give them cover.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span data-outline-text="true">The crucial moment may have been when the Democrats endorsed Occupy Wall Street and the Republicans did not challenge that. Occupy was not Free Speech but a dry run for ANTIFA. The point of no return was the refusal of Stacey Abrams to concede in Georgia. The Democrats were allowed to create a shadow government and then under the cover of COVID allowed Abrams to sponsor the mechanism for the theft of the 2020 election. The GOP should have used every tool available to force the Democrats to break with Seditionists and repudiate what was clearly a coup in progress months before the election. Unfortunately the antipathy to Trump among establishment leaders of the GOP enabled the Democrats to maneuver them into passivity.</span></span></div><p></p><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span data-outline-text="true" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">The maintenance of the forms of institution and ritual are not meaningless. There is reason to cling to them even when barbarians occupy the seats of power. It is through the institutions and the rituals, through the Constitution and Congress and the Presidency and the courts, and schools and religions, that values are transmitted and justice is delivered. That leads to a free and prosperous society. The institutions and rituals are tools, not the goals in themselves, but they are valuable tools and to abandon them is the path of despair and defeat. However as they are but a means and not the end they must be supported by vigorous enforcement. The fact is that the institutions did not, were not permitted to, operate. The supporters of President Trump did not have their day in court. Millions believe as I do that the election was stolen and that becomes more certain over time, not less.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" /><span data-outline-text="true" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">Between the election of the Constituent Assembly of 1918, that met for only 13 hours before the Bolsheviks dismissed, it and 1990 Russia was governed by a dictatorship cloaked in the forms of law. After all the Soviet Constitution of 1936 promulgated by Stalin was "the most democratic on earth." Did that make protests illegitimate? There is no need to go full Godwin and dwell on the forms cultivated by the constitutionally legal and elected, with the possibly unneeded use of fraud and thuggery, government of nazi Germany.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" /><span data-outline-text="true" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">Is it possible to satisfy the concerns of most of the sane, as I hope that I am, people who dispute the legitimacy of the current regime in DC? Yes but it becomes increasingly difficult to do so and the response from those invested in preventing an accounting has already crossed over into violence. The Democrats have proclaimed that any disputing of their claims to power, including peaceful protest and lawful assembly or communications, is Sedition and may be suppressed with force. Demonstrators who entered the Capitol on January 6th, which was probably unwise, but who did so after the police opened the doors and entered peacefully staying between velvet ropes have been treated brutally in a manner that only we thought had existed in the past in dark backwoods corners of America.</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" /><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" /><span data-outline-text="true" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;">What can be done? At a minimum the fact that there is a legitimate concern must be acknowledged. A full formal audit and public accounting of the election must be held. Invalid votes must be exposed and rejected. Where a state's Electors were improperly assigned their votes in the Electoral College must be invalidated. Reassignment of those votes to a competing slate is a separate issue. It may or may not be justified depending on the facts. If either canceling some EC votes or replacing them were to overturn the outcome of the election then the offices of President and Vice President would have to be declared vacant. At that point the XXth Amendment would take effect. My expectation is that would make the Speaker the Acting President until a new election could be held. Here is section 3 of the XXth Amendment:</span></span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" /></div></div></div><blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span data-outline-text="true" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">ππππ‘πππ 3. πΌπ, ππ‘ π‘βπ π‘πππ πππ₯ππ πππ π‘βπ πππππππππ ππ π‘βπ π‘πππ ππ π‘βπ ππππ πππππ‘, π‘βπ ππππ πππππ‘-πππππ‘ π βπππ βππ£π ππππ, π‘βπ ππππ ππππ πππππ‘-πππππ‘ π βπππ ππππππ ππππ πππππ‘. πΌπ π ππππ πππππ‘ π βπππ πππ‘ βππ£π ππππ πβππ ππ ππππππ π‘βπ π‘πππ πππ₯ππ πππ π‘βπ πππππππππ ππ βππ π‘πππ, ππ ππ π‘βπ ππππ πππππ‘-πππππ‘ π βπππ βππ£π ππππππ π‘π ππ’πππππ¦, π‘βππ π‘βπ ππππ ππππ πππππ‘-πππππ‘ π βπππ πππ‘ ππ ππππ πππππ‘ π’ππ‘ππ π ππππ πππππ‘ π βπππ βππ£π ππ’πππππππ; πππ π‘βπ πΆππππππ π πππ¦ ππ¦ πππ€ ππππ£πππ πππ π‘βπ πππ π π€βπππππ ππππ‘βππ π ππππ πππππ‘-πππππ‘ πππ π ππππ ππππ πππππ‘-πππππ‘ π βπππ βππ£π ππ’πππππππ, πππππππππ π€βπ π βπππ π‘βππ πππ‘ ππ ππππ πππππ‘, ππ π‘βπ ππππππ ππ π€βππβ πππ π€βπ ππ π‘π πππ‘ π βπππ ππ π πππππ‘ππ, πππ π π’πβ ππππ ππ π βπππ πππ‘ πππππππππππ¦ π’ππ‘ππ π ππππ πππππ‘ ππ ππππ ππππ πππππ‘ π βπππ βππ£π ππ’πππππππ.</span></span></div></div></div></blockquote><div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; word-wrap: break-word;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;" /><span data-outline-text="true" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;">There are real issues arising from the 2020 election regarding Voter ID and Early or Mail in voting, as well as Harvesting, that Congress should address.</span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span data-outline-text="true" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span data-outline-text="true" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black;"><span style="font-family: trebuchet; font-size: medium;"><span data-outline-text="true">Looking back, and at the risk of flogging a horse, I want to add something.</span><br /><span data-outline-text="true">Professor Lipson was my teacher, my mentor, is my I dare say friend, and over 40 years ago I was a spectacular disappointment when he I think took a turn as my advisor in the hope of getting some useful work out of me. His opinions matter. A belief in the benefits and even the necessity of building institutions, political, legal, and academic, and accepting the legitimacy of their procedures, including accepting an undesired result, is a rational and moral position. Good scholarship in the Social Sciences makes one aware of the grim consequences that follow when those institutions collapse and with startling speed societies revert to the Hobbesian war of all against all. </span><br /><br /><span data-outline-text="true">As the Declaration says "all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer" because the alternatives are both unknown and as the evidence of history and theory shows are usually worse. If the consequences of the election a year ago were, unpleasant as it may seem, simply the consequence of Donald Trump's abrasive personality alienating key groups of people combined with some clever or even unethical but still legal maneuvering by his opponents then the answer to his supporters may be, as the Lincoln Project Bush/McCain loyalists seem to say, "Suck it up. There was a lot at stake and you blew it. Now we have to try to put the pieces back together and it is going to be harder than it would have been if Trump had never existed." </span><br /><br /><span data-outline-text="true">Is that true? The evidence is obscured but that is because there has been a sustained campaign to suppress the evidence. That in itself makes it harder to accept the prematurely proclaimed results. Certainly it is reasonable to believe that the reason that Trump gained the support of the Republican base and probably the majority of the citizenry was that the Establishment in the GOP had become corrupted and demonstrably failed to defend the institutions and see that they functioned as tools to deliver the benefits of law liberty and prosperity I described above. Was there a spontaneous move reacting to traditional political operations or rather a sophisticated conspiracy that resorted to Sedition and even foreign support along with organized criminal activity, from mob violence to illegal election law changes, to coerce an illegitimate result?</span><br /><br /><span data-outline-text="true">To simply propose the second half of the above choice would seem bizarre or even paranoid but the first alternative, given what we all saw, is also incredible. We cannot simply dismiss one and declare that the other must be true. We need a proper accounting, no matter how inconvenient that may be. Efforts to suppress challenges are themselves evidence that the results should be challenged. Every effort to deny that accounting moves the weight of evidence to the side of declaring that that Mr Trump is correct.</span></span></span></div></div></div></div>LifeoftheMindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08332328377169650229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19925757.post-30623752172945033372021-10-17T22:02:00.002-04:002021-10-17T22:13:09.648-04:00Rot in The Groves of Academe<div data-block="true" data-editor="2stpu" data-offset-key="2arhs-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2arhs-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2arhs-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Actions must have Consequences, in Physics Politics or Law.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2stpu" data-offset-key="2jooj-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2jooj-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2jooj-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2stpu" data-offset-key="55tgo-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="55tgo-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="55tgo-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The Statute of Limitations, which guards against persecution and the introduction of unverifiable or tainted evidence as well as some forms of corruption, is not the same as granting wrongful conduct a veil of oblivion if it is not punished within two news cycles. We need a prominent regularly updated running tally of outrages and most importantly their consequences if any. In the below case from three years ago do we know what happened? Is Thomas still employed at U Miss or at any college or by any government?</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2stpu" data-offset-key="6tc5o-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6tc5o-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="6tc5o-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2stpu" data-offset-key="clfeq-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="clfeq-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="clfeq-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Part of the problem may be the relentless pressure on faculty to fill more than one role. Faculty at major universities are expected not only to perform research and mentor graduate students but also to engage with undergraduates and to act as public intellectuals, as personalities and advocates. That may have begun as a patriotic contribution to the government when it needed Experts to assist in crisis such as the Great Depression and then WW-II and The Cold War but it also was recognized as a gold mine in bringing to the schools not only direct federal money but also publicity that payed off when raising funds for the endowment. Famous faculty proved almost as valuable as a good football coach. </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2stpu" data-offset-key="81d29-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="81d29-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="81d29-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2stpu" data-offset-key="91csq-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="91csq-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="91csq-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The other side of that is the pressure on faculty at small and state colleges to also produce and publish original research. Continued publication by senior faculty, Full or Associate Professor, at state colleges should not be a requirement for job retention, even if tenure rules change as they well may. Publication by junior faculty seeking tenure should be subject to much more critical review, separate from that of the journals they publish in. The current system has become a self licking ice cream cone with a frequently inedible product. Real scholarship may be drowned out by the white noise of those who have nothing to say and who say it aggressively. This has been exposed by the placement of hoax articles. </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2stpu" data-offset-key="3ab9v-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3ab9v-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="3ab9v-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2stpu" data-offset-key="2tqoi-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2tqoi-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2tqoi-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Teaching faculty at state colleges who wish to participate in the life of scholarship beyond their classroom duties should be afforded opportunities to do so as Affiliates at regional Research Universities. While publishing as an Affiliate might generate some prestige and a small possibility of advancement to a research position at a university the expectation of a financial benefit proportional to the labor involved should be limited. The job of the college teacher should be to teach. This is a step back possibly to the concept of separate college and graduate faculties, although with the colleges largely on separate state school campuses, similar to that of the Hutchins era at the University of Chicago.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2stpu" data-offset-key="511gk-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="511gk-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="511gk-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2stpu" data-offset-key="e2p4v-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e2p4v-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="e2p4v-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Teaching in a non-vocational program at a Community College is probably worse than teaching in a decent high school, and there is no reason to support dubious publishing opportunities in questionable journals and an inflated graduate system to manufacture the doctorates that are not needed for the small number of genuine scholarly positions available. Without a doubt there are good people who can't get into a position at a top tier university. This is a tragedy and sometimes even an injustice. But the cost to society, especially in the opportunity cost of wasted resources, of pretending that those in the non-scholarly positions are producing work that is as valuable as scholarship should stop. Einstein may have done his best work while he was a patent clerk but we don't expect every patent clerk to publish and we don't create redundant journals to handle the produce of tenure hungry patent clerks. We would be better off if those who are not going to prosper as scholars, which in most fields like Anthropology means all but a handful a year, are told to focus on teaching and to drop the SJW theatrics. An Affiliation program would allow the leading faculties of the Research Universities to work with and find those who do belong in a top tier scholarly setting, without duplicating the graduate program at every state college. Of course I am generalizing. That is needed to generate testing.</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2stpu" data-offset-key="93ol7-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="93ol7-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="93ol7-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2stpu" data-offset-key="3mvq1-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3mvq1-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="3mvq1-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The problem is that after WW-II with the GI Bill the number of college students expanded dramatically, that created the demand to increase the number of graduate students, which created the demand to increase the number of graduate programs, all with federal funny money, and then the baby boom followed, increasing the demand ad infinitum or at until the students decided that hetero-sex was a bad thing. 60 years ago a small liberal arts school or a state college could boast of one or two serious scholars, often Jewish refugees, who were relieved of the burden their colleagues had at the research universities because at the small schools they did not have to teach graduate students. That reduced some of the perks of Academia but it worked. Now the vast overgrown network of 2nd and 3rd tier schools is flooded with faculty like the character at the original link for this thread and the students, many of whom do not belong in a liberal arts school, are ill served. For those faculty who aspire to something better it must be depressing. How can we get back to what worked?</span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2stpu" data-offset-key="elkns-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="elkns-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="elkns-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2stpu" data-offset-key="fiisb-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fiisb-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="fiisb-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The state colleges were established under the Land Grant system as Normal Schools (Teacher's colleges) and Veterinary schools. Those are important functions. A few other similar professional programs, such as Accounting and Engineering, may be considered of direct benefit to the states, as determined by th state legislatures. </span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2stpu" data-offset-key="1rrin-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1rrin-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="1rrin-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div data-block="true" data-editor="2stpu" data-offset-key="3ot7p-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3ot7p-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="3ot7p-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">BTW an Uncle of mine was a great scholar of French literature and became Dean of graduate studies at UMass, Amherst. Under his guidance that school became a great Research University. He was proudly Liberal and hated Eisenhower. When he was a graduate student at Columbia he was on a committee of graduate students, all but my uncle were I think veterans, who went to see Eisenhower, then the President of the university, to ask for a $25 raise. Eisenhower threw them out of his office.</span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3ot7p-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="3ot7p-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3ot7p-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="3ot7p-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">-----</span></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3ot7p-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="3ot7p-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><div class="qzhwtbm6 knvmm38d" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: black; font-family: inherit; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-top: 5px; white-space: normal;"><span class="d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql oi732d6d ik7dh3pa ht8s03o8 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d9wwppkn fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db jq4qci2q a3bd9o3v b1v8xokw oo9gr5id hzawbc8m" color="var(--primary-text)" dir="auto" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; 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Bring boxes and take their food home with you on the way out. They donβt deserve your civility.β</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">This untenured Assistant Prof is probably around 38 years old and spent the half of his life since high school working into his current position. If he gets fired, as I hope, his record should be amended to ensure that he does not find employment at a secondary school. He is quite literally unemployable. What can he do? Write Stand Up LGBT comedy reviews? The Village Voice has folded.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The larger issue is the bloat in America's education system. There are tens of thousands of people with graduate degrees that there is no market for except for taxpayer created jobs where they manufacture more students, who spend 4 to 15 years in the same fields and then expect employment. How many graduate programs in Sociology and Anthropology producing how many PhDs does America need? Probably fewer than a dozen, with all but the top 3 producing 1 to 3 new PhDs a year. The best may generate up to 5. How many undergraduate programs in those fields are justifiable? More than the graduate programs but still fewer than now exist. Almost all state university graduate programs in the Social Sciences and Humanities, which grew as an unintended consequence of the post WW-II GI Bill, should be shut down.</div></div><div class="o9v6fnle cxmmr5t8 oygrvhab hcukyx3x c1et5uql ii04i59q" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">All government scholarships should be tied to some period of prior active or concurrent reserve military service.</div></div></span></span></a></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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There was some justification for the government acting with dispatch in response to an unknown threat with an unknown level of lethality and unknown means of preventing mitigating or treating its impact. That was true, 18 to 20 months ago. That is why the initial response was labeled, "Two weeks to bend the curve." None of the excuses for Emergency actions that violated civil rights, including judicial due process, respect for state sovereignty, legislative oversight and authority, and individual freedoms including both of Speech and Privacy to include medical information, are true now. </span><br /><span data-outline-text="true">β </span><br /><span data-outline-text="true">The government asked for two weeks so that they could find out what the disease was and where it came from and what measures might prove beneficial in response. Now we know that Fauci lied to Trump and the American people. He knew what the disease was and where it came from and he participated in a grandstanding power grab that distracted and delayed more effective measures while millions suffered. Billion were lost in financial collapse and misdirected efforts. The emotional damage was also a real cost. China in a series of hostile acts not only produced the disease and entered into corrupt relations with American officials that weakened our response but also they have withheld information that could have sped our response.</span><br /><span data-outline-text="true">β </span><br /><span data-outline-text="true">At this point what do we know? There is a disease. It is or will be endemic, like other corona viruses. Absent further genetic manipulation to make it more lethal to targeted populations, which may happen as that may be a focus of CCP sponsored bioweapons research, many or most may catch it at some time and most will survive. Vaccines and mRNA treatments will be refined and will be appropriate for some but not all. Other treatments, using either new medicines or as is common repurposed medicines, will be tested and some will prove more effective than others. As with other diseases for almost everyone and certainly for civilians vaccination and treatment should be a matter of personal choice determined between patients and their physicians operating under rules of Confidentiality and Informed Consent.</span><br /><span data-outline-text="true">β </span><br /><span data-outline-text="true">Consider an analogy. When a house is on fire the firefighters may knock the door down and tear the walls open, smashing dishes and furniture as they chase the fire. Their right to do so lasts only as long as the initial fire is burning and the cause and path of it are unknown. After a few hours at most the firefighters withdraw. If there is a concern that someone may be storing paint, alcohol, or old rags improperly then the fire department is not allowed to kick in doors to find and neutralize the threat. The police will have to go to a judge and show cause and hope for a warrant that they then must present. If they do not conduct themselves professionally then they may be liable.</span><br /><span data-outline-text="true">β </span><br /><span data-outline-text="true">Freedom is maintained at a cost, and that may include some inefficiency. If someone fails to exercise due care in storing flammables or by not reporting or by spreading a disease then they may face civil or criminal liabilities. Note that for some diseases such as AIDS the Democrats have reduced or eliminated the liability of those who knowingly expose others to infection. However nothing may be done without due process. Even in the case of Typhoid Mary the Health Department had to go through the courts before confining her and they did not respond to the disease by locking up every Irish servant.</span></div>LifeoftheMindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08332328377169650229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19925757.post-52722133780045252532021-09-09T14:27:00.000-04:002021-09-09T14:27:25.668-04:00On Mandates and Conscientious Objectors<div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bu1jg" data-offset-key="3l2tg-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3l2tg-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dzhdVljBa5ipC0jw-0Zj1gSh1bcPY4mEGlhHAwSrcAACSUakZTIU7AXLaOrb60cakqs7b7QDhbLHZI' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /></div><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3l2tg-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="3l2tg-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">In my industry, like many others, COVID vaccines have been mandated as a condition of employment. There has been an exemption noted in many job postings for those with medical or religious objections. However such an exemption must be applied for in advance and would be evaluated by the employer's HR department. Rejection due to discrimination and subsequent denial of future employment would be almost impossible to prove. The (edited for confidentiality) notice follows.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bu1jg" data-offset-key="1vjka-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1vjka-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="1vjka-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bu1jg" data-offset-key="3gcem-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3gcem-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="3gcem-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">"π΄ππ ... βππππ [πππππ’ππππ ...] ππ’π π‘ ππ ππ’πππ¦ π£πππππππ‘ππ ππππππ π‘ πΆπππΌπ·-19 ππ π ππππππ‘πππ ππ ππππππ¦ππππ‘, π π’πππππ‘ π‘π ππππ ππππππ ππππππππππ‘ππππ πππ πππππππ πππ ππππππππ’π ππ₯ππππ‘ππππ ππ ππππ£ππππ ππ¦ πππππππ, π π‘ππ‘π ππ πππππ πππ€ (π.π., πππ ππππππ‘π¦, ππππππππ’π ππππππ, ππ‘π.)."</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bu1jg" data-offset-key="3rh8m-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3rh8m-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="3rh8m-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bu1jg" data-offset-key="e1sug-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="e1sug-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="e1sug-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">This parallels the Conscientious Objector Draft Exemption based upon a documented religious belief and affiliation that exists for the armed forces. That was often interpreted by the draft boards in a narrow manner that lead to applications being rejected. The rejection of the request from Alvin York, holder of the Medal of Honor and the most decorated American soldier of WW-I as given in the script of the film "Sergeant York."</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bu1jg" data-offset-key="abo7c-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="abo7c-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="abo7c-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bu1jg" data-offset-key="6kb8t-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="6kb8t-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="6kb8t-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">"πβπππππππ, π€π ππππ π‘βππ‘ π€π πππ'π‘ ππππ ππππ π¦ππ’π πβπ’ππβ π π€πππ-ππππππππ§ππ ππππππππ’π π πππ‘, πππππππ§ππ πππ ππ₯ππ π‘πππ, πππ¦ 18, 1917. ππ ππππ ππ’ππ‘βππ, π‘βππ‘ ππ‘ βππ ππ π ππππππ πππππ ππ₯ππππ‘ π‘βπ π΅ππππ, π€βππβ πππ ππ πππ‘ππππππ‘ππ ππ¦ ππ‘π πππππππ ππ π‘βππ¦ πβπππ π. π΄ππ πππππππ¦, π‘βπππ'π πππ‘βπππ ππ π‘βπ πππππ ππ π‘βπ πβπ’ππβ, ππ₯ππππ π ππ¦ ππππππππππ ππ‘π πππππππ π‘π ππππ‘ππππππ‘π ππ π€ππ. πβπππππππ π¦ππ’π ππππππππ‘πππ πππ ππ₯ππππ‘πππ ππ ππππππ."</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bu1jg" data-offset-key="dmvam-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dmvam-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="dmvam-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bu1jg" data-offset-key="evd25-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="evd25-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="evd25-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">We may consider that the draft boards of 104 years ago, like the governing political culture and the leadership of the armed forces, was considerably less hostile to religious or political dissent than that of either the government or of corporate HR departments is today. Biden's proposed mandates for all government employment, including contractors, may strip away even the tissue thin provision for an exemption based on Conscientious Objection.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bu1jg" data-offset-key="fg2n1-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fg2n1-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="fg2n1-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="bu1jg" data-offset-key="26ddl-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="26ddl-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="26ddl-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Government and business today under the influence of a totalitarian ideology claim a power greater than that of an absolute monarch. Elizabeth I of England said. "I have no desire to make windows into men's souls." We have General Milley who would never say as Major Buxton did, "York, as your superior officer, I don't feel called upon to look into your conscience."</span></div></div><br /><script type="text/javascript">
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Florida Michigan and Indiana come to mind. Texas also has a long standing competition between the UT and the Texas A&M schools. Usually these rivalries are acted on by students on the athletic fields and associated entertainments. In Texas they have become expressed in the modern sport of Competitive Virtue Signaling and devotion to The Cause by administrators.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fgak2" data-offset-key="aghf4-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="aghf4-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="aghf4-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fgak2" data-offset-key="2kcr9-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2kcr9-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2kcr9-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Obama's SEAL Admiral that barked like a dog and rolled over for him gave a good speech and got hired as the UT system Chancellor. From that bully pulpit Admiral McRaven, while still in a legal pay status as on the military retired (technically a reserve status) list, he not only criticized the President but called for his removal and promoted slanderously false stories of Trump acting as a Russian agent that have given cover to real foreign intrusion and Vote Fraud by the Democrats. McRaven has moved on but the damage he did was real.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fgak2" data-offset-key="d6c95-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="d6c95-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="d6c95-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fgak2" data-offset-key="3ndaq-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3ndaq-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="3ndaq-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Since then the A&M system has had catching up to do to prove their woke bona fides. Since actual student contact for instruction is not part of their job this year, and indeed colleges are shedding faculty to protect the jobs of administrators, the desk jockeys at A&M have had the leisure to concentrate on perfecting their coercive apparatus and demonstrate their loyalty to their feudal lords, and not to the citizen taxpayers.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fgak2" data-offset-key="2rgce-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2rgce-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2rgce-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="fgak2" data-offset-key="9nhef-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 20px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="9nhef-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="9nhef-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The administrators "How can you be successful?" is a threat, as if HR asks "Are you happy here?"</span></div></div><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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A can of food also washes up on the beach. They debate how they will open the can so they do not starve to death before a rescue arrives.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="d4nqq" data-offset-key="btkat-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="btkat-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="btkat-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="d4nqq" data-offset-key="a92bb-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="a92bb-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="a92bb-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The Engineer says, "Using the available palm tree leaves as rotors, trunks as shafts and seaweed for lashing we may construct an ocean tide powered engine that moves a saw constructed from shells embedded in wood to open the can."</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="d4nqq" data-offset-key="fvlf1-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="fvlf1-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="fvlf1-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="d4nqq" data-offset-key="acju3-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="acju3-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="acju3-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The Physicist says, "Elevate can Object A to height h and drop it so that it accelerates with the force of gravity g to velocity v until it strikes rock B, opening the can."</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="d4nqq" data-offset-key="8ef9f-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="8ef9f-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="8ef9f-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="d4nqq" data-offset-key="1vqaf-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1vqaf-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="1vqaf-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The Economist says, "Assume a can-opener."</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="d4nqq" data-offset-key="3hjg6-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3hjg6-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="3hjg6-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="d4nqq" data-offset-key="bv6b6-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="bv6b6-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="bv6b6-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Other professions or disciplines may be used but the punch line remains a constant.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="d4nqq" data-offset-key="71fmr-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="71fmr-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="71fmr-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="d4nqq" data-offset-key="7ob51-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="7ob51-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="7ob51-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">The point of the joke is that Scarcity is what Economics is all about. If you can assume the existence of enough of anything then it is no longer a tradable good. There is no shortage of salt water in the ocean or of oxygen in the atmosphere so the need for them only becomes of interest to Economists under special circumstances. Advertisers and Politicians may create a perception of scarcity to induce demand.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="d4nqq" data-offset-key="2sgti-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="2sgti-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="2sgti-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="d4nqq" data-offset-key="1rdqs-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="1rdqs-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="1rdqs-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Marxists live in the Economist's Joke Universe. That is Gene Roddenberry's vision of the Star Trek future where there is no longer a need for money. Marx phrased it thus, "to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner" which ignored both the need to gain expertise and the benefits of trade based on comparative advantage.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="d4nqq" data-offset-key="3crpv-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="3crpv-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="3crpv-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="d4nqq" data-offset-key="ded38-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ded38-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="ded38-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">What Roddenberry did was assume a technology that can instantly create matter, either in the Transporters or the Replicators. The matter produced may be either a person reassembled at a distant location or a chicken sandwich and coffee. However even in the Star Trek Universe the Economic Problem exists. The can of what is needed to satisfy all wants has simply been kicked down the road a bit. What is always in short supply is Energy usually in the form of Deuterium. With enough Energy the Replicators, Transporters, Warp Drives, and Photon Torpedoes work.</span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="d4nqq" data-offset-key="dtdnt-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="dtdnt-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="dtdnt-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;"><br data-text="true" /></span></div></div><div class="" data-block="true" data-editor="d4nqq" data-offset-key="ehbtj-0-0" style="caret-color: rgb(5, 5, 5); color: #050505; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div class="_1mf _1mj" data-offset-key="ehbtj-0-0" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span data-offset-key="ehbtj-0-0" style="font-family: inherit;">Hucksters Grifters and Politicians, but I repeat myself, have been selling Free Energy stories forever, probably since we climbed down from the trees. The motivation to try is a good thing. Storytellers keep motivating us to if not find the utopia of free energy to at least in the hunt for it find a chicken sandwich machine.</span></div></div><script src="http://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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Sworn law enforcement officers tend to be held to a higher standard than the general public. While they also must articulate a reasonable fear that deadly force was facing themselves or another, and often their rule is that they should act to defend themselves or another LEO but may act to defend civilians, the sworn officers are held to a high standard in risking injury by only confronting the one person specifically and individually posing a threat while the mob at large must be controlled if possible with nonlethal force. The public are not trained in or expected or even allowed to carry and use all the nonlethal means, sprays tasers and batons not used as clubs, that law enforcement officers carry.<br><br>
While the police may arrest someone and you if you survive or your family if you die may say that you were not armed or violent but only documenting with your camera and chanting slogans you may well be a legitimate target for someone under attack who responds with their own deadly force. Once you join a mob you give up the right to claim that you are a peaceful protestor or an innocent observer.
If 50 people are standing in a park not blocking people and holding signs and chanting slogans then that is peaceful protest. If one person leaves that crowd and attacks someone then the crowd is still peaceful and not a legitimate target. However if 200 people attack a restaurant then every member of that mob is a legitimate target if any of the people in the restaurant feel in reasonable fear for their lives and respond with deadly force.<br><br>
The politicians and the BLM/ANTIFA activists have by pressuring the police not to confront criminals, and by releasing those who are arrested, made it more reasonable that a peaceful citizen might feel the need to defend themselves and not wait in the expectation that the police will protect them as a threat escalates. While six months ago a jury might have felt that someone carrying a weapon was seeking to be a vigilante and had escalated prematurely to deadly force or killed an innocent person who was not themselves a threat, and this point has nothing to do with the general right to bear arms, now if anything the use of force by civilians is both more likely and more justifiable.<br><br>
I would go further and say that unless they have been kidnapped or are legally incompetent, like the child that Saddam Hussain pawed on television, a person is liable if they do not move away from the mob as fast as their furry feet will take them. If you intend to join a peaceful protest and when you look around you see people with shields, clubs, gasoline, rocks, helmets, unlicensed medical trauma teams, and those that anyone old enough to walk to school on their own should recognize as bad to be near or totally crazy then it is on you if you are part of the mob when violence breaks out.LifeoftheMindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08332328377169650229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19925757.post-35519218025317650092020-05-04T12:47:00.000-04:002020-05-04T12:47:24.488-04:00"Tiles"Comment on Sarah A, Hoyt's "A Meeting With Friends" Facebook Chain<script src="https://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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Tiles.<br>
My sharing stories and politics came later. While I avoid anything that seems like a chain I may do this and copy to my moribund blog.
Finding you on Fbook reminded me of when I was child and we went on a trip to Europe that started in England and finished in Portugal. It was a tour and the others in our group included characters that might have gotten rejected from a "Ugly American" documentary as too stereotypical. One started yelling at the little guy at the front of the bus in Portugal, which resulted in the guide screaming, "We are not hoodlums! You are not in Chicago!" That gave me visions of ending up in a 800 year old dungeon. While in Portugal we got some lovely tiles that are now on my dining area table. I should clean it off but here is a detail.
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Those who have known me in some way, no matter what stage of my life, surely know a little bit about me! Maybe we're not bffs this moment, but we are linked by some fortunate time when our paths have crossed. I'm curious how willing we are to use our time to write something to someone else. I decided to participate in an experiment called "A Meeting With Friends". The idea is to see who reads my post without a photo, as we are often so immersed in the images, that any concentration in reading is appreciated. If no one reads this message, it will be a short social experiment, but, if you read to the end, I want you to post a word that connects you to me! For example a place, an object, a person, a moment that brings us back to our past or current relationship. After, as the experience dictates, copy the text and paste on your wall. I'm going to your wall to leave a note that ties me to you Please don't comment on this post if you don't have time to copy the text, it would ruin the experience! Gratitude! Just as you remember, people remember you too.LifeoftheMindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08332328377169650229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19925757.post-9126966577450306842020-04-04T00:18:00.000-04:002020-04-04T00:51:16.175-04:00Overidentification With The MenRegarding Captain Crozier of the USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN-71) when I was at Naval OCS they showed us two movies for Leadership training. One was "In Which We Serve" with Noel Coward (and by Coward and David Lean) and the other was Henry King's "Twelve O'Clock High" with Gregory Peck and Gary Merrill. Noel Coward's character in IWWS was based on Lord Louis Mountbatten and all of the characters in Twelve O'Clock High were modeled on real members of the 8th Air Force. Captain Crozier is undoubtedly a fine brave skilled and accomplished man. He was trained on this. He knew better.<br />
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What should he have done? Clearly it was his duty to inform the outbreak of a contagious and debilitating disease on his ship be made known to senior officers. Indeed given that the CVN is a capital ship and major national strategic asset he was expected to do so in a matter that would come to the attention of the Chief of Naval Operations and the Secretary of Defense, and even of the President (Who is referred to as the National Command Authority). He was in fact expected to seek relief for the ill and their isolation or removal to protect the other crewmembers. Above all his duty was to keep his command combat ready or support measures to restore it when it was unable to fulfill any assigned mission. This is the key. His first duty was to his mission. He was expected to care for his troops and inspire their loyalty but not at the expense of the mission.
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How should he have done that? By sending a classified message through his chain of command that informs all concerned parties and is marked of such urgency that it will come to the attention of the NCA. The means of doing so is in a formatted message called a Casualty Report or CASREP. It is the same method used for reporting a broken part. The urgency of the problem can be marked in the message in a manner designed to get it responded to effectively. There are additional message formats the Captain could have used within the system. He also could have sent a personal message to the CNO or Secretary of the Navy if he thought that his needs were not being addressed and a serious threat to national security was being created by the neglect of his seniors. All of these messages would be classified.
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What he did instead was to send an unclassified letter stating that the health of the crew took priority over any operational mission. That letter which was certain to become public informed all potential or actual enemies of the United States that the Theodore Roosevelt was not combat ready.
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There is a reason that officers are told not to get to close to their troops. An Infantry officer once said to me, "Don't use their first names. You may have to send them to their deaths." The Naval Officers Guide warned that even if you had the gift connecting informally you had to be careful because you must not make it harder for the next guy.
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<br />I am sure that I would have felt the urge to support him. It is difficult. We need not accuse him of wanting to be an American Caesar without more proof, and the military is cursed with to many gray technocrats who cannot Lead or do not care for their troops but his use of the line "we are not at war" in his letter was I fear inexcusable.<br><br>
It was called "Overidentification with the men."
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Fredric March is brilliant but the play and film do a disservice to William Jennings Bryan, who was a more consequential person of greater learning and human sympathy than the caricature depicted. In the real Scopes trial Bryan, who had opposed criminal penalties and had called for laws that called for the teaching of Evolution as a theory instead of as a fact, offered to pay the defendant's $100 fine. Bryan died in bed 5 days after the trial ended. The modern Liberal Democratic Party, the party of FDR LBJ and Joe Biden, owes at least as much to William Jennings Bryan as it does to Clarance Darrow and the sophisticated intellectual elites sympathetic to international socialism.LifeoftheMindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08332328377169650229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19925757.post-16224457905007182092020-03-10T09:27:00.000-04:002020-03-10T09:30:50.990-04:00Comment on Facebook: Wretchard T. Cat,"Will the Olympics be postponed?"<script src="https://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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Steven Pressfield's Gates of Fire described how the Greeks returned to the pass and sanctified it with athletic events and ceremonies and left an inscription on a stone, composed by the poet Simonides.<br>
O xein angellein Lakadaimoniois hoti tede<br>
keimneta tois keinon rhemasi peithomenoi<br><br>
Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by,
that here obedient to their laws, we lie.<br><br>
They did not sully the sacred fire, obedient to their laws.
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Mary Renault's "The Praise Singer" is a historical fiction whose central character is Simonides that focuses on the flowering of Greek culture in Athens under the Peisistrades and the fall of the Tyranny.<br><br>
Words I think were seen as almost magic. A form of power from the gods that enabled time to be controlled by men. When Alexander destroyed Thebes he ordered the house of Simonides rival the poet Pindar spared.<br><br>
The Olympics were an opportunity for people, both the athletes and the communities that they represented and which commemorated their athletes with odes and statues, to approach the Heroic ideal of the Immortal. The perfection of the Beautiful and the Good made men more than beasts.<br><br>
Both words and athletics were seen as ennobling. Those with Arete were not only ΞΏαΌ± αΌΟΞΉΟΟΞΏΟ aristocrats better than the common man but associating with them and remembering them made the ΞΏαΌ± Οολλοί commoners better too.<br><br>
Without the ideal to emulate people as individuals and as communities become a feral mob. As the Bard of England put it, "Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason."<br><br>
The degeneration of athletics into corrupt spectacles has paralleled the decline of civil and political culture. Where once the challenges of an often hostile world, both by man and nature, were met by active engagement with each heeding Theodore Roosevelt's call to be "The Man in the Arena" now people slink like dogs into caves to self quarantine until their betters tell them that it is safe to emerge.LifeoftheMindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08332328377169650229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19925757.post-35817540443803055032020-03-09T22:08:00.000-04:002020-03-09T23:45:05.060-04:00Panic In Aisle Nine<script src="https://www.google-analytics.com/urchin.js" type="text/javascript">
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We are seeing stories of WalMart shelves cleaned out to look like Venezuela and people fighting over Costco toilet paper like it was Black Friday in the toy department of JC Penny. What we have in the panic buying of toilet paper and other consumables is nothing less than a form of a bank run. This is a good thing in that we know about bank runs. At least we know at least as much about bank runs as we do about bathroom runs. With the gentle reader's permission I will now move on from that graphic analogy. The point is that there is a model for what causes a bank run and how the bureaucrats can respond to one. They are trained on this.<br><br>
Money to an Economist is just another good, like food, clothing, shelter, gasoline or forgive me toilet paper. What is special about it is that it enables the trade in other products. That is not exclusive to money though. After all being well fed, protected from the elements, well rested, able to transport goods or the people who perform services, and being clean and healthy are all also important in completing transactions. Money just makes things easier.<br><br>
Panics and bank runs periodically plagued capitalist societies, including in America. Major depressions, which were called Panics until 1929 when the term Depression was introduced as being less alarming, happened during the 19th century. The Federal Reserve (1913) was designed to reduce the risk of panics and bank runs. However they still can happen.<br><br>
The subsequent Great Depression may have shown that the government's response to a panic was not perfected but they have since worked diligently on the problem. Economists study this and model how to use tools just as the military studies hypothetical crises and games out the application of the tools available.<br><br>
Seriously what the government needs to do is approach the market disruptions revealed by panic buying and hoarding of some goods by using the Bank Run model. They can do this.<br><br>
It's either that or distribute copies of Izvestia and Pravda, or Renminbi.LifeoftheMindhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08332328377169650229noreply@blogger.com0